APF awards two grants that support innovation in population studies and reproduction research
The Henry David Research Grant provides up to $1,500 for support of ongoing research in behavioral aspects of population studies or human reproductive behavior. This year, APF awarded Henry David Research Grants to two innovative scholars:
- Tierney Lorenz, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior at Indiana University. Her research examines the bidirectional relationship between sexual behavior and mental/physical health. She will use the grant to study how the presence or absence of sexual activity may influence immune response in healthy women across the menstrual cycle.
- Sophia Choukas-Bradley, a sixth-year clinical psychology student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on psychosocial predictors of adolescents' and young adults' sexual behaviors. Other research interests include peer norms and influences on the longitudinal development of a broad range of health-related behaviors and mental health symptoms, the role of gender in adolescents' development, and the intersection of body image and sexuality among adolescent girls and young women.
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Making strides in counseling psychology research
The Div. 17 Counseling Psychology Grants sponsor a range of activities aimed at enhancing the science and practice of counseling psychology, including basic and applied research, literary and educational activities. This year's grant recipients are:
- Matthew Miller, PhD, an associate professor of counseling psychology in the department of counseling, higher education, and special education at the University of Maryland. His research examines basic culture- and race-related processes, the role of culture and racial factors in health and health disparities, and the measurement of cultural and racial constructs. One of his research priorities is addressing the high rate of depression and the low rate of mental health service utilization among older Asian-Americans by developing an ecologically and culturally valid treatment intervention model.
- Gulsah Kemer, PhD, and Ashley K. Randall, PhD, both assistant professors in counseling and counseling psychology at Arizona State University. Kemer's main area of research focuses on describing expertise in counseling supervision, particularly understanding beginning and expert supervisors' cognitive processes. Randall's primary area of research focuses on understanding how couples regulate stress in the context of their relationships.
- Geoff Bathje, PhD, an assistant professor in the counseling program at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. He partners with community organizations, educational institutions, and service-providing organizations to conduct his research. His areas of study include multicultural competence in counseling and organizations, racial/ethnic microaggressions, stigma of mental illness, use of psychedelic substances, and harm reduction for substance users.
Dicandrien Inc. supports innovation with a gift to APF
To honor the legacy of the late Theodore Millon, PhD, DSc, and to give back to the professional community of which he was a part, Dicandrien Inc. — on behalf of the Millon family — is supporting the APF Campaign to Transform the Future with a gift of $30,000.
A leading personality theorist, researcher, clinician, professor and author, Millon devoted his career to the study and assessment of personality disorders. His work organizing and classifying personality disorders, as well as his creation of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory and subsequent assessments, left an indelible impact on the field. Today, those assessments continue to aid clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment planning of adult and adolescent personality disorders, as well as behavioral health issues.
Dicandrien's commitment will continue funding for the APF Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology, which was established with a gift from Millon and his wife Renee in 2004. Their gift also supported critical research in APF's Visionary priorities.
Alyssa Millon Boice, the administrative director at Dicandrien Inc., and Millon's granddaughter, said that he strongly supported APF because the foundation's work mirrored his own beliefs. "Giving to APF is a way to help ensure the field of psychology — in particular, personality development, disorders and assessment — stays innovative, vital and forward moving," she says.
Millon Boice also encourages others to consider a gift to APF as a way to help society: "We cannot think of a better foundation to support than APF, which helps so many others."
